All Films

the gods of times squareD

2004 • 44 min

outtakes from the gods of times square

Compression de Niagara de Henry Hathaway

2004 • 4 min • France

Niagara's compression was designed along the same lines as the compressions of Alphaville and Breathless previous. In the 3600 frames of Niagara Compression, not a single shot from Henry Hathaway's film is missing.

Free fall at 180º

2004 • 10 min

The end of the Cold War marked the end of an era without bringing forth the beginning of a new one, we find ourselves in a moment of transit where space and time cross to produce complex figures of differences and identities, past and present, inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion. We find ourselves lost in the au- delà as Homi Bhabha likes to call it, or in the non-place as Marc Augé describes the transit places; for there is a sense of disorientation, a disturbance of direction, we are living in the beyond.

places in pieces vol. 1

2004 • 59 min

places in pieces vol. 1 is an experimental documentary with a geographical focus on the northern half of the United States. The intent of volume 1 is to draw attention toward the overlooked and the discarded, while observing and interacting with primarily urban environments, and those inhabiting that landscape.

And the World Didn't Catch Me

2004 • 46 min • Ukraine

After completing his higher education, Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722-1794) traveled throughout Europe and learned several foreign languages. From the early 1770s, he led a nomadic lifestyle. In his later years, he stayed with one of his students. It is said that shortly before his death, Skovoroda began digging a hole, saying that it would be his grave. He also asked for the following words to be written on his tombstone: "The world pursued me, but did not catch me."

Birdsong

2004 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A film tableau featuring Biswas's son and inspired by his first spoken sentence aged 18 months, in which he expressed his desire to have a horse live with him in his living room.

On Detour with Manny Farber

2004 • 27 min

Documentary about the work of the acclaimed modernist painter and celebrated film critic, Manny Farber

Guided By Voices: The Who Went Home and Cried

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Video documentary of the last show of bass player Greg Demos. Includes footage of the band's practice session on Bob's front porch with Bob playing guitar.

Signes de vie

2004 • 10 min • Belgium, France

One night, near a cliff-to, a young woman receives a marvellous and unhoped for invitation of life.

Le Dieu Saturne

2004 • 40 min

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.

Communique

2004 • 4 min • Norway

The film is about the longing for a new language, a language that can grasp things at the limit of what we can understand and perceive. A unique form of communication, a place where words are not enough.

Bullets Over Breakfast

2004 • 11 min

What happens when three armed roommates realize there is only one waffle left in the house? Armageddon, Quantum Petshop style!

Farce Sensationelle!

2004 • 3 min • Spain

2004 Spanish experimental short

The Rough River, the Placid Sea

2004 • 60 min • Kazakhstan

A modern parable about three brothers whom life has divided as they each went their separate ways. Of their happy childhood and adolescent years together, only a black-and-white photograph remains, capturing the three young men at a table in front of their family home, and memories of the greenhouse that was their father's pride.

Uma Homenagem a Aluízio Netto

2004 • 9 min • Brazil

In the 1920s, in the city of Cataguazes, Minas Gerais, a gang from the communist party caused chaos in the region's cinemas by swapping the original film cards for others with Marxist content.

De 10 a 14 Anos

2004 • 12 min • Brazil

Marciano tells some of the stories of his adolescence. The first love, the friends and his discoveries are remembered affectionately, as well as his 15th birthday, which seemed the beginning of a different life.

Rain Is Falling

2004 • 15 min • Germany

Far away in a foreign and apparently merciless world, a little girl struggles to carry water pots that are far too heavy for her. Uncomplaining, she hauls the jugs from a distant place to her sick mother in their wretched home.

The Taxman Movie

2004 • 46 min • United States of America

There are some characters society just can't tame, and when the notorious Taxman rises up to battle injustice by taking on the government, the mafia, and anyone else who dares to stand in his way. When the lies of an oppressive society come crumbling down, you can rest assured that it's the Taxman who is swinging the wrecking ball.

Quasar

2004 • 30 min • France

The macrocosm present in QUASAR is a non colonized outer space. A non science-fictionalized outer space. It is a space of fantasized stars and galaxies, black holes and light particles. It is a space of hypnotic contemplation and dissociation of the subject from the self. Immersion into macrocosmic vibrations, rotations, contractions, into slow and curved time patterns. Non linear, non climactic time. Outer-inner skies.

Imprints

2004 • 6 min • Canada

In this non-narrative animated film inspired by composer François Couperin's harpsichord composition "Barricades mystérieuses," Jacques Drouin explores a whole new way of using the pinscreen to create animated images. He pivots the screen and uses low-angled light to capture images in high relief. The result is like a sculpture whose expertly modelled forms are revealed through film. A film without words.

Cowboys in Kosovo

2004 • 24 min • Netherlands

Four men from Kosovo play cowboy like they used to in their childhood and compare this to the war they have just gone through.

Anaconda Targets

2004 • 11 min • United States of America

"Anaconda Targets , a documentation tape of aerial bombings by the American military in Afghanistan, depicts the devastating effect of smart bombs. Not often featured in media reports, the soldiers' voices form the soundtrack that accompanies these chilling images. The document has been appropriated by filmmaker Dominic Angerame as a critique of his government's military aggression." - Susan Oxtoby

Harmony

2004 • 12 min

A male God bestows upon animals the gift of self-awareness, which they promptly use to express guilt for their behavior. This moral breakthrough is somewhat undermined by the appearance of humans, whose invention of magical belief systems degrades the whole of Nature.

Bételgeuse

2004 • 5 min

Invocation to light. The hands probe the surroundings and sink deeper into the abstract space of the projection. They seek contact... In a mixture of pure colors and crystalline sounds, the light responds to the call, imbues the face with clarity and transmits its message.